(Part 1) 58th Session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD58)

10 Feb 2020 - The fifty-eighth session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD58) will take place from 10 to 19 February 2020. The Commission is the advisory body responsible for the social development pillar of global development.
In 2020, we are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Commission and the 25th anniversary of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development. 2020 is a crucial year for the accelerated realization of inclusive societies and reducing inequalities everywhere for people of all ages.
Priority Theme: Affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness

- Opening of the session
- Election of officers
- Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters - Item 2 - E/CN.5/2020/1
- Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly - Item 3
- Priority theme: affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness - Item 3 (a) - E/CN.5/2020/2, E/CN.5/2020/3
- Review of relevant United Nations plans and programmes of action pertaining to the situation of social groups - Item 3 (b) - A/75/61-E/2020/4, E/CN.5/2020/4
- Emerging issues: twenty-five years of the World Summit for Social Development: addressing emerging societal challenges to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Item 3 (c) - E/CN.5/2020/5
- Introductory statements
- General discussion on item 3 (a) and (b)